uzbeck

Updated: May 22, 2025

United and powerful under the terrible Batu, who died in 1255, it fell to pieces under his successors; but in the fourteenth century the khan Uzbeck reunited it anew, and gave the Horde a second period of prosperity. The Tartars, who were pagans when they entered Russia, embraced, about 1272, the faith of Islam, and became its most formidable apostles.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 : (From Barbarossa to Dante)